LA ROCCA v. NEW YORK NEWS, INC.


156 N.J. Super. 59 (1978)

383 A.2d 451

PASQUALE LA ROCCA AND CHRISTINE LA ROCCA, HIS WIFE, AND JAMES PETRUZZIELLO AND BARBARA PETRUZZIELLO, HIS WIFE, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. NEW YORK NEWS, INC., W.H. JAMES, PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER, FRANK EVERS AND JUDY RUSSELL, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 1, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William H. Gazi argued the cause on behalf of appellants (Messrs. Foley & Gazi, attorneys; Mr. William H. Gazi on the brief).

Mr. Kevin J. Coakley argued the cause on behalf of respondents (Messrs. McElroy, Connell, Foley & Geiser, attorneys; Messrs. Townley & Updike of the New York Bar, of counsel; Messrs. Peter C. Gould and Harry H. Wise of the New York Bar, on the brief).

Before Judges MATTHEWS, CRANE and ANTELL.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs, two policemen and their wives, filed a libel action against a newspaper and three of its employees alleging that an article, an editorial and a cartoon defamed them. They appeal from the granting of defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action in libel.

The alleged libel concerned the newspaper's criticism of an arrest by the police officers of a...

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